Speaking Challenge, December 2017

Review sentence 1 and say fluently from memory. Learn sentence 2: 是时候我们往前走了吧。 "It's time for us to move forward!" Can now say this from memory. Started Sentence 3: 把这美丽的一切都深深刻在心里吧。 "Deeply engrave...

Your Chinese word of the day is: 孩子 孩子們 - children 孩子们喜欢玩。Children love to play. 孩子在笑。The child is smiling. 当你有了孩子之后所有的事情都变了。Everything changes when you have a child. 小孩儿正举着他的手。The child is r...

Yesterday before work had some time for memrise app.

Had my Chinese test today, had also speaking and reading part in it.

Lingq. It's so useful for me, especially because on the phone app, there are many reading speed options (slow and fast). It's great.

Lingq.

Lingq.

Reading a transcript with audio.

Repeating AIA insurance video from memory. Started new video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrGxru6nqeQ 那我懂你意思了It's time to say goodbye. Practiced repeating 1st line: 伙伴们快背好你的行囊 Companions, car...

35 minutes - shadowing of entire video

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Listened and repeated 迷路 and 我家在这儿 from chinese skill

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Reading and sending voice messages to a friend. To check fluency and pronunciation. A 如果到时候下雨怎么办？ B 如果下雨，咱们就不爬山了，就去看展览 A 明天天气怎么样？ B 明天天气很好。 A 周末天气特别好，我们约同学们一起去郊游怎么样？ B 好主意

Reading out loud A: 春天快到了 B: 是的，你有什么计划吗？ A：我想和你一起出去郊游。 B：好吧，咱们去哪儿呢？ A 快考试了，咱们别去玩儿了，还是在家复习吧。 B 虽然时间挺紧张的，可是现在天不冷也不热，正适合出去玩呢。

Learning words 越来越 more and more 一起 together 不冷也不热 neither cold or hot 正适合 just be fine. /just suits well. 挺紧张的 kind of nervous 别 don't 复习 review 努力 hardworking 应该 should 谁想去 who want ...

Going over the pronunciation and practice fluency. A：你好！天天快递公司。 B：你好！我想发几本书。 A：我们可以上门取快递，能不能告诉我你的地址？ B：花园小区，806号 A：能告诉我你的联系方式吗？ B：我的手机，18607235497 A：我们马上派人过去。 B：大概多长时间能过来？ A：大约三十分钟吧。 B：好的。

Sentence 16 - Last sentence: 有我帮你友邦人寿。 You have me to help you. AIA insurance. Easy to say.

Developing Chinese Elementary Speaking Course, Chapter 7 Doing the dialogue A：你好！天天快递公司。 B：你好！我想发几本书。 A：我们可以上门取快递，能不能告诉我你的地址？ B：花园小区，806号 A：能告诉我你的联系方式吗？ B：我的手机，18607235497 A：我们马上派人过去。 B：大概...

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跟italki的教师聊天听写的单词和语法。

Developing Chinese Elementary Speaking Course (II), studying for my oral exam. Chapter 9 Learning and repeating words 脸色 ， 夜里，楼上，邻居，唱，挑，怎么，着，一，天哪，睡懒觉 About 15 minutes after the recording. Mak...

Sentence 16: 因为了解所以与你更靠近 To understand you, we need to get close to you. Can say this fluently, but have problems remembering it. Review of Sentence 15: can now say fluently and from memory.

Sentence 15: 赶快回去看孩子。Hurry home to see your kids. Somehow, this is difficult to remember and say quickly. Don't have the hang of it yet. Spent 15 minutes reviewing sentences 1-14 and 15 minutes o...

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